The suicide ad reminds me of the bicycle I had in college. It was a Diamant. German make. After the bombing of a Hanoi warehouse the only item left standing was a Diamant and every viet student at my college wanted to buy my bike.
At the end of my last year I sold it to one of them. He was so determined to seal the deal that he insisted to buy me a shot of vodka over the deal. Someone had taught him that such was our custom. Only after a vodka drink the deal woul become inexorably final.
This guy who had not gone in a bar outside Vietnam took me in a bodega and we drank. Diamant forever.
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